Perhaps you just don't see just how quickly these types of ideas can turn deadly. The worst part of all of this is just how systemic the bias has become.
If you ascribe to the belief that "Jews control America", then you are a part of a HUGE problem of Antisemitism here in America.
I don't even live in America.
Now, you can get all upset because I am pointing this inconvenient truth out, but SOMEONE needs to. We don't need another Holocaust, and this is the beginning of one.
Please point out where I said I ascribe to the belief that "jews control America". Do you think saying "AIPAC has a tremendous impact on American foreign policy" is the same thing? (Although I didn't even say that!) Your post suggests you do, which makes me think perhaps your "lifetime of fighting against bigotry" has made you a little over-sensitive.
But now you are equating Israel's National Policies to ALL Jews EVERYWHERE, and that's just plain dangerous. Does Israel have a huge and influential lobby? Yes. Is this a reason to say that "Jews control America"? ABSOLUTELY AND RESOLUTELY NO.
First, I didn't say that.
Second, the way criticism of Israel is framed depends on who you're talking to. If it's a simplistic person with a loose grasp of facts and not much of a penchant for accuracy (ie the opposite of someone like me), then "Jews control America" is just a different way of saying "AIPAC has a tremendous impact on American foreign policy toward Israel." or "The Asper family sacks reporters and editors who attempt to run articles that are critical of Israel in their papers". If the members of AIPAC are Jewish, and the Asper family is Jewish, then is it really so unreasonable to say Jewish people are attempting to control public opinion and foreign policy in North America?
Put another way, if Bush and all his cronies
are Christian (or claim to be), is it bigoted to point out that Christians are attempting to control America?
Now, look at .lava's posts about all those people (presumably Jews) who happen to be rich. He has posted 70+ random names who have two crimes against them: They are rich and they are Jewish....
He's responding to
your own post where you asked (for whatever incomprehensible reason) for someone to show you some rich Jews. Failed debate tactic on your part and pointless response on his. Just leave it at that.
As for me being hysterical, I am sure that Hitler's Germany said that about all those people who disagreed with the concentration camps as well. I have fought bigotry my entire life: I am NOT going to be silenced because it makes a few people uncomfortable. Deal with your bigotry and you won't feel so uncomfortable.
Riiiiiiight. So, let me get this straight - since I don't suppress my honest opinion of groups like AIPAC, CAMERA, and the Asper family I'm no different from Hitler. :clap
What about if i'm Jewish,
like this guy, am I allowed to do it then? Or am I still launching a second haulocaust?
The bottom line for me in Israel policy is what I saw in the Occupied Territories. The separate roadway system, the religious girls stoning Arab girls who were going to school... the settlements are,
as poet David Shulman writes, evil. The settlers are driving Palestinians off the land and
getting the Israeli army and American political system to back them.
Last night at dinner my sister asked me Why if everyone and his brother is for the two-state solution is there not a real push for a two-state solution? The easy answer is that
the Israel lobby in the U.S., which has virtually set policy, is dominated by the right wing. - Philip Weiss
